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American Journal of Epidemiology 2004 160(5):507-508; doi:10.1093/aje/kwh247
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Copyright © 2004 by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RE: "ASSOCIATION OF A WOMAN’S OWN BIRTH WEIGHT WITH HER SUBSEQUENT RISK FOR PREGNANCY-INDUCED HYPERTENSION"

Thomas Harder and Andreas Plagemann

Clinic of Obstetrics, Division of Experimental Obstetrics, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Charité–University Medicine Berlin, Berlin 13353, Germany

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Recently, Innes et al. (1) published findings from a large study on "fetal origins" of pregnancy-induced hypertension (PIH), concluding that a strong inverse relation exists between birth weight and PIH risk. However, it seems to us that important parts of their analysis are seriously biased because of a fundamental conceptual and methodological mistake.

Unadjusted analysis of the data set of Innes et al. (1) demonstrated a U-shaped relation between birth weight and later risk . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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